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Historical Fiction July 2024
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| Rednecks by Taylor BrownSet in 1920-1921 against the backdrop of the West Virginia Mine Wars, Rednecks follows a group of coal miners donning red bandanas and fighting back against unfair labor practices. The compelling story focuses on a variety of characters, including a Black World War I veteran, a Lebanese American doctor, and Ireland-born labor organizer Mother Jones. |
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| Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. ChungUsing her family history, debut novelist Eve J. Chung depicts an aristocratic mother and three daughters in 1948 China after the men of the family flee the communists, leaving them behind. But the quartet fight for survival, traveling from the country to British Hong Kong and finally Taiwan, as the middle daughter dreams of more. "Readers will be moved by this humanizing account of a turbulent period in China’s history." (Publishers Weekly) |
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| The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda SkenandoreDr. Tucia Hatherley, who gave up medicine after a fatal mistake, works in a factory and raises her disabled son in 1900. Desperate for more money, she joins a traveling medicine show, taking her across Texas where she forms something of a family with the performers. But there are still dangers to face in this compelling, well-researched novel peopled with complex, believable characters. |
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Old king : a novel
by Maxim Loskutoff
In 1976, Duane Oshun, stranded in a remote Montana town, takes a job as a logger and builds a cabin near a reclusive neighbor, a hermit named Ted Kaczynski, whose violent grievances against modern society threaten the lives of those around him, leading to a crime spree that trembles the nation. "Loskutoff’s narrative is swiftly paced and deeply textured, with a keen sense of the landscape and its cantankerous human inhabitants. This leaves a mark." (Publishers Weekly)
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The lost letters from Martha's Vineyard : a novel
by Michael Callahan
When TV producer Kit O'Neill discovers her late grandmother was Mercy Welles, an Oscar-nominated actress who disappeared just as her career was taking off, she puts her investigative skills to good use, which leads her to Martha's Vineyard—the island that holds the key to the fateful summer that changed everything forever. "Readers will have a hard time putting it down." (Publishers Weekly)
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All the summers in between
by Brooke Lea Foster
After a chance reunion in the Hamptons, two former friends are compelled to confront the traumatic incident that severed their bond. Set in the dual timelines of 1967 and 1977, All the Summers In Between is at once a mesmerizing portrait of a complex friendship, a delicious glimpse into a bygone Hamptons, and a powerful coming-of-age for two young women during a transformative era.
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The glassmaker
by Tracy Chevalier
From the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers on an island where time passes by its own clock. They live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure. "History flows like molten glass in this stunning novel that borders on fantasy." (Publishers Weekly)
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